Western Chatino

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Western Chatino is a variant of the Chatino language, an indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by Chatino communities in Oaxaca, Mexico.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Western Chatino canonical 2
Western Chatino language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chatino language variety
Oto-Manguean language variety
indigenous language variety
basicWordOrder verb–subject–object
classificationStatus often treated as separate language within Chatino cluster
contactLanguage Spanish
continent North America
country Mexico
endangermentCause language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Chatino communities
hasAlternativeName Chatino occidental
linked to: Chatino languages

Western Chatino language
linked to: Western Chatino
hasCommunity Santa Catarina Juquila community
Santos Reyes Nopala community
Tataltepec de Valdés community
Zenzontepec community
hasDialect Juquila Chatino
Panixtlahuaca Chatino
Santos Reyes Nopala Chatino
linked to: Santos Reyes Nopala

Tataltepec Chatino
Zenzontepec Chatino
hasGlottocode west2630
hasLinguisticAreaFeature Mesoamerican linguistic area traits
hasMorphologicalType fusional
synthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant system
contrastive vowel length
tone
ISO639-3Code ctp
isPartOf Mesoamerican languages
indigenous languages of Mexico
languageBranch Chatino branch of Zapotecan
linked to: Zapotecan languages
languageFamily Oto-Manguean languages
languageStatus endangered language
region western Oaxaca
spokenBy Chatino people
spokenIn Mexico
Oaxaca
subdivisionOf Chatino language
linked to: Chatino languages
subfamily Zapotecan languages
subjectTo language documentation projects
usedFor everyday communication in Chatino communities
oral tradition
ritual speech
usedIn bilingual education programs in Oaxaca
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chatino people hasLanguage Western Chatino
Chatino languages hasLanguageBranch Western Chatino
Western Chatino hasAlternativeName Western Chatino language
linked to: Western Chatino